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by E.M. Forster

Autumn Adventures rated it

13 years ago

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3.5 starsI found this gem yesterday via Feedbooks public domain short stories listings. I raised my eyebrows when I saw E.M. Forster wrote a science fiction novella (in 1909). I love reading dystopian fiction, provided I space it between less depressing offerings. Forster surprised me with not on...

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thebookcoop rated it

14 years ago

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I love these little classics. It contains two short stories - The Machine Stops and The Celestial Omnibus.The Machine Stops is set in a dystopian world where human being live in self contained hexagonal rooms with buttons that control everything from music, to night and day, food, the air they brea...

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spocksbro rated it

15 years ago

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I saw this story mentioned on my GoodReads' feed and, as I had had a surprisingly (to me) good experience reading Forster and I like the genre, I followed the link to a site where I downloaded the tale and had another pleasant read.The story takes place in an indefinite future when nearly all of hum...

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A little tea, a little chat rated it

16 years ago

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I was straightforwardly gobsmacked when I first read this story last year. Wow. Here is our world, described one hundred years before it happens. These are just a few samples that particularly appealed to me. I don’t want to give away the story and there are lots of other interesting ideas about the...

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Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it

54 years ago

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After I'd read A Rebours last week, it occurred to me to wonder whether this well-known novella was yet another piece that linked to it. The main theme in Huysmans's book is the superiority of the artificial: the engagingly mad des Esseintes tries to construct an entirely artificial world to live in...

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